- Industry: Financial services
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A package of two or more different kinds of risk management instruments that are usually interactive.
Industry:Financial services
An investment notion that even when a stock is fully valued by conventional standards, there is room for upward movement because there are enough buyers to push prices farther upward purely on speculation or hype.
Industry:Financial services
A security guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association that is backed by a collection of mortgages, in which the investor receives the interest and principal payments of participating homeowners.
Industry:Financial services
A type of insurance company investment that combines the benefits of both a fixed annuity and a variable annuity.
Industry:Financial services
The holding of a large block of stock of a target company by an unfriendly company, with the object of forcing the target company to repurchase the stock at a substantial premium to prevent a takeover.
Industry:Financial services
Used for listed equity securities. (1) Term used in a securities transaction involving three brokers, as follows: Broker A, a floor broker, executes a buy order for broker B (a member firm broker who has too much business at the time to execute the order). The broker with whom broker A completes the transaction (the sell-side broker) is broker C. Broker A "gives up" the name of broker B, so that the record shows a transaction between broker B and broker C even though the trade is actually executed between broker A and broker C; (2) distribution of commissions to brokerage houses not participating in a trade. This is a grey area of the law governing reimbursement of a broker for services (e.g., research). See: Directed brokerage.
Industry:Financial services
A convertible security whose optioned common stock is trading in a middle range, causing the convertible security to trade with the characteristics of both a fixed income security and a common stock instrument.
Industry:Financial services
Option that allows the underwriter for a new issue to buy and resell additional shares.
Industry:Financial services
A popular stock characterized by high earnings growth rate and a price that rise is faster than the market average in a bull market.
Industry:Financial services
